...but not both. Good point. Except that Microsoft seemed to have managed both with Windows, Office, etc.
Good counter-point. Except that Sun is not Microsoft, and we're discussing today, not 20 years ago. It's easy to be the top dog when there are fewer kids in the sandbox, no? Microsoft is not having the same success with their new "initiatives" that they once did. I submit that it's at least partially because there is more competition.
FYI, the morning after the Superbowl, I caught a story about the MyDoom virus (they referred to SCO as a "small software company") on the morning news. Granted, it's not Tom Brokaw, and they avoided technical details, but you get the point. There are presumably several people in major news organizations that are not brain-dead when it comes to tech news.
Opera is a nice browser, but honestly how many people do you know that actually regged it?
Add me to the pile of people who answered your rhetorical question. I registered Opera after using it for a few weeks. I get so much mileage out of it, if they asked me to register again, I'd do it in a heartbeat. My recommendation, and this even extends to Firebird/Fox users, is to try the browser for 30 days. It takes about that long to see all of the nuances that will knock your socks off. There's a great introduction to the browser (in 30 days, no less) right here.
What about the guy who died in the internet cafe (I think it was dehydration in South Korea) and the guy who was too busy playing Everquest to make sure his child didn't die?
What about them? They are exceptions, and isolated incidents. Hard evidence is what is really needed, a broad look at trends, and a careful eye for dependent/independent variables, as well as making sure that niether the researchers nor the test subjects can alter the results (too much, anyway).
If papers like the NYT were in the business of showing the other side of the fence, ie: "Man Spends 5 Hours a Day on Internet, Leads Normal and Healthy Life", the point would be clearer. Until then, we just have to accept that such people exist.;)
Another twenty-five cents of that goes towards distribution costs. It leaves Apple with less than a dime profit per song. They are not taking a loss, but a profit margin of less than 10% is nothing to be proud about, especially when you factor in initial start-up costs. It takes a lot of time to make your money back.
I have little to add to your excellent post, except another fun category that serves to confuse the matter.
When it comes to buying games, I belong to both the buyer and the pirate group. I'll buy the game, discover that anti-piracy measures in it serve to inhibit gameplay, and have to go searching for a no-CD crack. Most recent example: KOTOR. I bought the game, I have the nice spiral-bound manual, etc. However, frequently while the game was loading, it would "fail" the original CD check. Sometimes it took upwards of five minutes just to start. Finally got frustrated, found a crack (took a few seconds), patched, and stored the CD elsewhere.
You know that you have a failure when your copy-protection fails to stop pirates, and inhibits the paying customer. Just in case anyone thought that the **IA was the only group of people who needed a reality check.
I thought that's what the point of M2 was? If an M2 "unfair" will reverse the penalty, then what we really have is a problem with M2, not with moderators. Obviously M2 would have to be tweaked with, but so would normal moderation. Isn't that what they alwasy say? It's not perfect, but it works well enough?
No, you should get your wife another kind of gem, one whose price and supply aren't controlled by the same international monopoly that has brainwashed her into desiring a diamond an order of magnitude over other stones that you can buy without being gouged as much.
If you get a call from DeBeers, and they suggest meeting alone on top of a tall building at 4AM: you may want to consider faking your own demise and fleeing the country.
As technology gets more complicated, so does the spam. The only way to protect yourself is to not give out your address. Period. Heck, I don't even give my work e-mail address to my parents.
I like aliases for that, so I always know where (sort of) the spam originated from. The email I have in my user info here on/. is an alias pointing to my real one, and the only place it's posted is here. I've already attracted a horde of MyDoom emails and some tentative give-me-money spam in the last week alone. Thankfully it's easy to pinpoint where it comes from, and shut off the faucet, should I choose to do so.
There is no "they", there is the Lindows CEO, Michael Robertson. This is the guy who funded the XBOX hacking contest. Any opportunity he has to piss in Microsoft's Cheerios, he will take.
Absolutely. It's a single checkbox in Preferences, just like most of the other highly-configurable features. Also, it's smart, so you won't see it twice in the same session for the same un/pw.
With KaZaa, at least, the program won't run if you strip out some of the core spyware. There are alternatives, of course, but the point stands: sometimes using Ad-Aware can piss off the program you're trying to use, and make it refuse to function.
Indeed. Since everyone can contribute/edit articles, you quite frequently get extremely well-balanced information. You will see things with a slant, but then you'll read qualifiers right after from someone with a -different- slant. Personally, I think that's the key: there there is no information that is completely unbiased, but when you have access to EVERYTHING, you can draw your own conclusions. What you end up with is what you were looking for in the first place.
It's not a perfect system, but like the moderation here, it works well enough.
It's also not a solution becuase there isn't an easy way to have widespread adoption (yet), which would be required for it to work. Also, it would just give birth to a new generation of email worms, only this time the zombie computer it infected would be used for DDoSing AND for computing hashes.
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Funny, I remember seeing this review somewhere before (third review down). Is someone at Amazon going to be cheesed you stole their review?
That story may make the Slashdot frontpage more interesting, but according to the FAQ, Linus drinking beer makes it an omelette. I don't ask questions.
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FYI, the morning after the Superbowl, I caught a story about the MyDoom virus (they referred to SCO as a "small software company") on the morning news. Granted, it's not Tom Brokaw, and they avoided technical details, but you get the point. There are presumably several people in major news organizations that are not brain-dead when it comes to tech news.
Considering that ISPs make their money by selling you "unlimited" access that they pray you never use, I'd say that's highly unlikely. ;)
If papers like the NYT were in the business of showing the other side of the fence, ie: "Man Spends 5 Hours a Day on Internet, Leads Normal and Healthy Life", the point would be clearer. Until then, we just have to accept that such people exist.
Another twenty-five cents of that goes towards distribution costs. It leaves Apple with less than a dime profit per song. They are not taking a loss, but a profit margin of less than 10% is nothing to be proud about, especially when you factor in initial start-up costs. It takes a lot of time to make your money back.
We all remember this article.
I have little to add to your excellent post, except another fun category that serves to confuse the matter.
When it comes to buying games, I belong to both the buyer and the pirate group. I'll buy the game, discover that anti-piracy measures in it serve to inhibit gameplay, and have to go searching for a no-CD crack. Most recent example: KOTOR. I bought the game, I have the nice spiral-bound manual, etc. However, frequently while the game was loading, it would "fail" the original CD check. Sometimes it took upwards of five minutes just to start. Finally got frustrated, found a crack (took a few seconds), patched, and stored the CD elsewhere.
You know that you have a failure when your copy-protection fails to stop pirates, and inhibits the paying customer. Just in case anyone thought that the **IA was the only group of people who needed a reality check.
Looks like Darl's code doesn't actually take any money out, it just drops an equivalent value in his account. The U.S. Mint is gonna be pissed. ;)
Just take the take out the space that /. put in the URL.
Click.
(let's see if I'm going to have to explain this one)
I thought that's what the point of M2 was? If an M2 "unfair" will reverse the penalty, then what we really have is a problem with M2, not with moderators. Obviously M2 would have to be tweaked with, but so would normal moderation. Isn't that what they alwasy say? It's not perfect, but it works well enough?
Well, that's why it has the heat-conducting metal back. Take it out of the case, maybe point a fan at it.
There is no "they", there is the Lindows CEO, Michael Robertson. This is the guy who funded the XBOX hacking contest. Any opportunity he has to piss in Microsoft's Cheerios, he will take.
Absolutely. It's a single checkbox in Preferences, just like most of the other highly-configurable features. Also, it's smart, so you won't see it twice in the same session for the same un/pw.
For those of us that don't feel like switching to another OS, Opera will do.
With KaZaa, at least, the program won't run if you strip out some of the core spyware. There are alternatives, of course, but the point stands: sometimes using Ad-Aware can piss off the program you're trying to use, and make it refuse to function.
1 + 1 = 2
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Not in binary.
Indeed. Since everyone can contribute/edit articles, you quite frequently get extremely well-balanced information. You will see things with a slant, but then you'll read qualifiers right after from someone with a -different- slant. Personally, I think that's the key: there there is no information that is completely unbiased, but when you have access to EVERYTHING, you can draw your own conclusions. What you end up with is what you were looking for in the first place.
It's not a perfect system, but like the moderation here, it works well enough.
It's also not a solution becuase there isn't an easy way to have widespread adoption (yet), which would be required for it to work. Also, it would just give birth to a new generation of email worms, only this time the zombie computer it infected would be used for DDoSing AND for computing hashes.
Funny, I remember seeing this review somewhere before (third review down). Is someone at Amazon going to be cheesed you stole their review?
That story may make the Slashdot frontpage more interesting, but according to the FAQ, Linus drinking beer makes it an omelette. I don't ask questions.